Sentences with phrase «cells using light»

They examined the pattern of slime thread coiling within developing cells using light and electron microscopy and 3D imaging and modelling.

With the help of optogenetics, the research group was able to deactivate specific genetically altered brain cells using light.

We can bypass damaged cells using light to signal output neurons directly.

Researchers in optogenetics can control genetically modified brain cells using light but because of these modifications, the technique is not yet deemed safe to use in humans.

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One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

Cambridge, MA — February 6, 2017 — Aura Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies to target and selectively destroy cancer cells using viral nanoparticle conjugates, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug application (IND) for the company's lead program, light - activated AU - 011 in ocular melanoma (OM).

Cambridge, MA — March 30, 2017 — Aura Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies to target and selectively destroy cancer cells using viral nanoparticle conjugates, announced today that it has enrolled and dosed the first patient in its Phase 1b clinical trial of light - activated AU - 011, an investigational, first - in - class targeted therapy in development for the treatment of ocular melanoma, a rare and life - threatening disease.

The problem with cell phone plans, much like cable plans, gym memberships, magazine subscriptions, household lighting, or countless other money sinks that we need to optimize, is that most people grossly overpay for what they actually use.

All an evolutionary storyteller has to do is to start with the apparently simplest version, ignore the neural equipment that has to be present for an organism to make any use of a «photon receptor,» and spin a charming tale about how a tiny primitive light - sensing cell might grow up to be a full - fledged eye.

there is endless evidence via fossils and other remains of how certain cells evolved light sensitivity and spent billions of years evolving through simple compound eyes to what we see today; the myriad different eyes used by species that presently inhabit the earth.

The Origami stroller uses innovative technology by which you can charge your cell phone and light up an LCD dashboard through the generators in the rear wheels.

When my baby wakes up in the middle of the night I typically will just use the light from my cell phone to do what I need to do.

«Today, thirty minutes of cell phone use per day would be considered very light use.

The carotene compound is converted to Vitamin A by the body where it is used to maintain the skin and assist in making cells that sense light as well as the pigments in the eye.

We used it on an outing to the county fair to hold a couple cloth diapers, light weight jackets for the kiddos, wipes, wallet, cell phones, and camera.

Explore how animals have evolved an amazing variety of eyes from early clusters of light - sensitive cells, along with often surprising ways to use them.

A new research tool using light allows scientists to watch individual brain cells react in real time.

Using shadows rather than light, researchers developed an experimental system for imaging cells that attaches to a cell phone and sends the data to diagnostic centers.

As they fall deeper into the dark between the stars, the light sails would attempt to transmit their precious findings back to Earth using laser beams no more powerful than the signal from a typical cell phone.

Nanoplasmonic materials have attracted the attention of biologists, chemists, physicists and material scientists, with possible uses in a diverse array of fields, such as biosensing, data storage, light generation and solar cells.

Jürgen Hauer, a co-author of the report and a junior research group leader at the Photonics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology, explained that natural systems have evolved to use light efficiently, but there are some caveats before engineers can design a solar cell that works as effectively as a leaf.

In optogenetics, light is used to control genetically modified cells.

They use a near - infrared laser beam, which can penetrate deep — in this context, deep means a centimeter or two — into the tissue, where a nanoparticle turns the near - infrared light into blue light, and that directs the activity of genetically engineered immune cells.

«These cyanobacteria use the entire cell body as a lens to focus an image of the light source at the cell membrane, as in the retina of an animal eye,» says University of London microbiologist Conrad Mullineaux, who helped to make the discovery.

Using a molecular dimmer switch that smoothly dials up glowing lights in bacteria, researchers can make calculators in living cells that add, subtract, divide, and even do logarithms.

One of the genes Deisseroth uses triggers the cell to fire in response to blue light; another responds to yellow light by suppressing activity in the cell.

Her new projects could eventually lead to light - based technologies used to improve drugs or to create new tests to find cancerous cells.

Spanning 17 elements — from lanthanum to lutetium, plus scandium and yttrium — they find use in computers, screens, superconductors, oil refineries, hybrid or electric vehicles, catalytic converters, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, light - emitting diodes, lasers, audio speakers and microphones, cell phones, MRI machines, telecommunications, battery electrodes, advanced weapons systems, polished glass, and even the electric motors that run automobile windows.

When researchers used optogenetics — a technique that allows cells to be switched on and off with light — to increase the amount of bursting in the lateral habenula, mice behaved in a more «depressed» way, remaining motionless when forced to swim in a container of water, for example.

This is the idea of inserting a gene into cells and that gene is light controlled, so that you can use light to manipulate the cell.

Using fluorescent antibodies designed specifically to light up the receptor in mice, the investigators observed it on vagus nerves, which serve as a main biochemical connection between airway cells and the brain.

This can be useful for everything from using a simple light microscope to watch cells divide to using light - based techniques to drive genetic and cellular actions.

Whispering galleries for light were developed about a decade ago, but researchers have only recently explored their use in solar - cell coatings.

The new device uses light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) to detect the structural changes that occur in cancerous or pre-cancerous cells by bouncing light off tissues and analyzing the reflected spectrum.

Scientists made select nerve cells in mice's brains sensitive to light, and then used lasers to activate specific groups of those cells.

Perovskite materials have shown great promise for use in next - generation solar cells, light - emitting devices (LEDs), sensors, and other applications, but their instability remains a critical limitation.

Qingdong Zheng, a materials scientist at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, suggests that such biolasers could find uses in new types of sensors or in light - based therapeutics, in which light is used, for example, to kill cancer cells by triggering drugs into action that have already been administered.

To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light - emitting diode manufacturers.

The starfish relatives use light - sensitive cells throughout their bodies to sense their surroundings

Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light - sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs)-- a major step toward making spray - on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture.

«Using near - UV light to power these windows means that the solar cells can be transparent and occupy the same footprint of the window without competing for the same spectral range or imposing aesthetic and design constraints,» Loo added.

The smart window controls the transmission of visible light and infrared heat into the building, while the new type of solar cell uses near - UV light to power the system.

Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.

In one experiment, they hooked a solar cell to one of the batteries and used solar power to light an LED display.

The brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, a relative of starfish, can scan the sea floor, thanks to light - sensitive cells scattered across its skin, rather than by using eye - like structures, a study suggests.

Physicists borrow an old tool from geology to focus «cathodoluminescence» and use it to probe the interior layers of metamaterials in lasers, light - based circuits and solar cells

According to the Technion researchers, fuel cells can even play an energy saving role in airline and airport ground support operations when they are on used for systems such as de-icing and runway light towers.

Built into a single cell, the laser might one day be used for light - based therapeutics, perhaps killing cancer cells deep inside the body.

It's more efficient than previous devices, the researchers say, because its two cells absorb more light than single - layer solar devices, because it uses light from a wider portion of the solar spectrum, and because it incorporates a layer of novel materials between the two cells to reduce energy loss.

He targeted ChR2 to the sleep cells and then, using optical fiber, delivered light directly to the mice's brains.